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THE EARTH AND ITS PEOPLES was one of the first texts to present world history in a balanced, global framework, shifting the focus away from political centers of power. This truly global text for the world history survey course employs a fundamental theme--the interaction of human beings and the environment--to compare different times, places, and societies. Special emphasis is given to technology (in its broadest sense) and how technological development underlies all human activity. Highly acclaimed in their fields of study, the authors bring a wide array of expertise to the program. A combination of strong scholarship and detailed pedagogy gives the book its reputation for rigor and student accessibility. The Fourth Edition features extensive new coverage of world events, including globalization in the new millennium. Coverage of China has also been extensively reorganized and rewritten. The Dolphin Edition is available in the following split options: THE EARTH AND ITS PEOPLES Complete (Chapters 1-34), ISBN 0547149484; Volume I: To 1550 (Chapters 1-15), ISBN 0547149492; Volume II: Since 1500 (Chapters 16-34), ISBN 0547149522.

Table of Contents

The Maritime Revolution, to 1550

Global Maritime Expansion Before 1450

European Expansion, 1400-1550

Encounters with Europe, 1450-1550

Comparative Perspectives

Environment and Technology: Vasco da Gama's Fleet

Diversity and Dominance: Kongo's Christian King

Issues in World History: Climate and Population, to 1500

The Globe Encompassed, 1500-1750

Transformations in Europe, 1500-1750

Culture and Ideas

Social and Economic Life

Political Innovations

Comparative Perspectives

Environment and Technology: Mapping the World

Diversity and Dominance: Political Craft and Craftiness

The Diversity of American Colonial Societies, 1530-1770

The Columbian Exchange

Spanish America and Brazil

English and French Colonies in North America

Colonial Expansion and Conflict

Comparative Perspectives

Environment and Technology: The Silver Refinery at Potos?, Bolvia, 1700

Diversity and Dominance: Race and Ethnicity in the Spanish Colonies: Negotiating Hierarchy

The Atlantic System and Africa, 1550-1800

Plantations in the West Indies

Plantation Life in the Eighteenth Century

Creating the Atlantic Economy

Africa, the Atlantic, and Islam

Comparative Perspectives

Environment and Technology: Amerindian Foods in Africa

Diversity and Dominance: Slavery in West Africa and the Americas

Southwest Asia and the Indian Ocean, 1500-1750

The Ottoman Empire, to 1750

The Safavid Empire, 1502-1722

The Mughal Empire, 1526-1761

The Maritime Worlds of Islam, 1500-1750

Diversity and Dominance: Islamic Law and Ottoman Rule

Environment and Technology: Tobacco and Waterpipes

Northern Eurasia, 1500-1800

Japanese Reunification

The Later Ming and Early Quing Empires

The Russian Empire

Comparative Perspectives

Environment and Technology: East Asian Porcelain

Diversity and Dominance: Gendered Violence: The Yangzhou Massacre

Issues in World History: The Little Ice Age

Revolutions Reshape the World, 1750-1870

Revolutionary Changes in the Atlantic World, 1750-1850

Prelude to Revolution: The Eighteenth-Century Crisis

The American Revolution, 1775-1800

The French Revolution, 1789-1815

Revolution Spreads, Conservatives Respond, 1789-1850

Comparative Perspectives

Environment and Technology: The Guillotine

Diversity and Dominance: Robespierre and Wollstonecraft Defend and Explain the Terror

The Early Industrial Revolution, 1760-1851

Causes of the Industrial Revolution

The Technological Revolution

The Impact of the Early Industrial Revolution

New Economic and Political Ideas

The Limits of Industrialization Outside the West

Diversity and Dominance: Adam Smith and the Division of Labor

Environment and Technology: Gas Lighting

Nation Building and Economic Transformation in the Americas, 1800-1890

Independence in Latin America, 1800-1830

The Problem of Order, 1825-1890

The Challenge of Social and Economic Change

Comparative Perspectives

Diversity and Dominance: The Afro-Brazilian Experience, 1828

Environment and Technology: Constructing the Port of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Land Empires in the Age of Imperialism, 1800-1870

The Ottoman Empire

The Russian Empire

The Qing Empire

Comparative Perspectives

Environment and Technology: The Web of War

Diversity and Dominance: Chinese Responses to Imperialism

Africa, India, and the New British Empire, 1750-1870

Changes and Exchanges in Africa

India Under British Rule

Britain's Eastern Empire

Comparative Perspectives

Diversity and Dominance: Ceremonials of Imperial Domination

Environment and Technology: Whaling

Issues in World History: State Power, the Census, and the Question of Identity

Global Diversity and Dominance, 1850-1945

The New Power Balance, 1850-1900

New Technologies and the World Economy

Social Changes

Socialism and Labor Movements

Nationalism and the Rise of Italy, Germany, and Japan

The Great Powers of Europe, 1871-1900

China, Japan and the Western Powers

Environment and Technology: Railroads and Immigration

Material Culture: Cotton Clothing

Diversity and Dominance: Marx and Engels on Global Trade and Bourgeoisie

The New Imperialism, 1869-1914

The New Imperialism: Motives and Methods

The Scramble for Africa

Imperialism in Asia and the Pacific

Imperialism in Latin America

The World Economy and the Global Environment

Diversity and Dominance: Two Africans Recall the Arrival of the Europeans

Environment and Technology: Imperialism and Tropical Ecology

The Crisis of the Imperial Order, 1900-1929

Origins of the Crisis in Europe and the Middle East

The "Great War" and the Russian Revolutions, 1914-1918

Peace and Dislocation in Europe, 1919-1929

China and Japan: Contrasting Destinies

The New Middle East

Society, Culture, and Technology in the Industrialized World

Comparative Perspectives

Diversity and Dominance: The Middle East After World War I. Environment and Technology: The Birth of Civil Aviation

The Collapse of the Old Order, 1929-1949

The Stalin Revolution

The Depression

The Rise of Fascism

East Asia, 1931-1945

The Second World War

The Character of Warfare

Diversity and Dominance: Women, Family Values, and the Russian Revolution